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The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off Thursday, June 11, to much fanfare, but one thing companies may not have considered is just how much it will cost them in lost productivity. And that number is staggering. An estimated 5 billion people globally (averaging over 128 million viewers a day) are likely to watch the games on-screen or in the stadium—and employees are already planning absences or “sick days” to attend watch parties, according to a new survey from UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), a workforce management software company. The question is, are employers ready? The study of 8,000 employees—across the U.S., U.K.,…
“Innovation” is starting to become a buzzword. From keynote speeches to strategic plans, we hear the word thrown around so often that it now risks losing its meaning. If you were to ask 10 executives to define innovation, you’ll get 10 different answers, most of them vague and unhelpful. That vagueness isn’t an accident. Innovation is hard to do, and it’s easier to celebrate in retrospect than to execute in real time. In my experience, most conversations about innovation skip past the truths that actually determine which companies and leaders succeed. Let’s explore the top three secrets of innovation. 1.…
NestFresh branding, including the text “humanely Hatched.” Credit NestFresh.NestFreshOn a Sunday 40 years ago, the egg-industry executive Michael I. Sencer had an unforgettable experience.He was visiting a large California egg ranch with his family, so that his children could watch baby chicks coming out of the incubators. As they emerged, workers would separate the males and females, tossing the male chicks into trash cans lined with plastic bags. Sencer still remembers vividly that “when they would fill them with the baby male chicks, they basically would just close them up and suffocate them.”His young daughter tugged at him. What were…
El Niño has officially arrived—and it could become one of the most severe on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns. With our oceans already warming from the burning of fossil fuels and human-caused climate change, El Niño adds even more heat. That means the climate pattern has the potential to amplify weather extremes, leading to prolonged droughts, severe floods, and more damaging forest fires. It could also disrupt fishers and lead to crop loss in certain regions of the world. [Image: NOAA] Though some have dubbed this year’s climate pattern a “Super El Niño,” NOAA meteorologists don’t use…
How to solve today’s Wordle.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesLooking for help with today’s Wordle? Look no further. An abundance of hints, clues and other helpful items await, not to mention a bonus Custom Wordle and plenty more.It’s 2XP Friday, so all you Competitive Wordlers be sure to double your point tally (for good or ill) when you add up your points. Let’s solve this thing!Looking for Thursday’s Wordle? Check out our guide right here.Today’s Bonus Custom WordleNow that we can create our own custom Wordles, I’m including a bonus Wordle with each daily Wordle guide. These can be 4 to…
Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Fable 5, its most capable public model. But within two days, users began reporting that its safety system was blocking benign or legitimate prompts. Fable 5 is the first public model derived from Anthropic’s Mythos family, whose original iteration showed unusual skill during training at finding software bugs and exploiting them to disrupt or take control of systems. That raised enough concern inside Anthropic that the company grouped cybersecurity with other high-risk domains, including biology and chemistry, when setting limits on Mythos-derived public models. For Fable 5, that means prompts flagged as sensitive in those…
Widow’s BayCredit: Apple TVWidow’s Bay is not only one of the best TV shows currently streaming, it’s one of the best shows of 2026. It’s also one of my favorite horror-comedy series of all time, with one banger of an episode after another. While most of these hover around half an hour, the show is so smartly written and cleverly crafted, more than enough story is packed into each short installment. It’s brilliant, and that makes Apple’s announcement today all the sweeter: Widow’s Bay will return for a second season.“From the moment audiences arrived in Widow’s Bay, they’ve been hooked…
Meet Dingo, a 60-year-old surf photographer who shoots Newport Beach’s most famous break. He recently captured a massive summer swell, and the riders who shredded it. A surfer drops in to a massive break at The Wedge (Photo: DingoSaidSo.com )Published June 11, 2026 02:57PMSurfers and bodyboarders in Newport Beach, California, ock to The Wedge, a shark fin-like wave that breaks near the town’s harbor. For the past six years, the wave and its riders have been the focus of a photographer and Instagrammer who goes by the name Dingo. The 60-year-old Dingo (he asked that his real name be kept…
From Wall Street to Main Street, Elon Musk’s hotly anticipated SpaceX initial public offering (IPO) tomorrow has hit a fever pitch with anyone and everyone, with headlines buzzing about it in superlatives: Blockbuster. Record-breaking. As the rocket company heads into the final countdown to its stock market debut on Friday, June 12 (here’s a clock from Yahoo Finance), here’s what to know. (There is no set time for trading to begin, but companies often wait a bit after the market opens.) What’s happening? SpaceX set its final IPO price at $135 a share, and will sell 555.5 million shares of its Class…
If you’re a regular reader you may recall that one of Samsung’s recent Galaxy S26 Ultra promotions, which knocked $200 off the device, didn’t match up to an equivalent deal at the same time a year before.We expected this to happen. Profits are squeezed because of the RAM crisis and Samsung has responded with price increases and weaker deals. Except a couple of recent promotions show that the Korean company is fighting to stay competitive on Galaxy S26 Ultra pricing. The latest one, a free pair of £219 ($249.99 in the U.S.) Galaxy Buds 4 Pro, is one of its…